Three Key Ratios For Investors

if you could only have four ratios to evaluate a company what would they be? This is a fun question that is popular in investing circles. For a laugh I’ll take my shot at it, what would you pick?

1) Current Ratio

Current Assets / Current Liabilities
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CenturyTel Stock Review

CenturyTel, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, is an integrated communications company engaged primarily in providing an array of communications services, including local and long distance voice, Internet access and broadband services. The Company operates in 25 states located within the continental United States.
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Why We Are Reviewing

• is currently sporting an 8% dividend.

Bristol-Myers

This article originally appeared on The DIV-Net May 15 2009.

This week we are reviewing Bristol-Myers Squibb as a possible stock acquisition. To do so we will use the Buffett four filters we discussed in a previous article.
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Stock Analysis Methanex

Originally published on: Div-Net
After much searching I found a stock screener for Canadian stocks (more on this in another post). I was able to assemble a Graham style screener with the following criteria:
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• Exchange TSX
• P/E less than 15
• Dividend Yield > 3.5
• Average EPS > 33%

Building a Simplified Graham Value Stock Screener

I did a search and could not for the life of me find a link to a prebuilt Google screener for Graham’s value investing system. So lets quickly build one:

Through the Graham series we said we would only consider companies that:
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1. Had a P/E of less than or equal to 15.

Insider Trading December Report

Every day I pull a list of the insider traders then I shorten the list to be only buys done by roles that have a proven track record (see my previous post for a little on this). Finally I run an evaluation of the companies based on some of the ratios that Graham used to find companies that are cheap (See my earlier series on this).
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Buy a Company with a Future (Current Ratio) (Session 5)

Current ratio is an important one; it shows us how the company will survive in the short term. As I mentioned earlier there are reasons why the company is currently cheap our job is to figure out why and also to build in a safety margin to make sure they are going to survive the reason they are so cheap.
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Buy on the Cheap (Price/Book Ratio) (Session 4)

If you made it through price to earnings ratio, price to book ratio will be a piece of cake.
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